Hip Hop We Gotta Do Better?!?!?

Alright so I am a big Luda FAN!


Hence me promoting his new mixtape, in yesterday's post.

I even heard the Pro-Obama song and didn't over analyze it..... However after getting home from work, I come to see Ludacris on the News....

So much of a big deal was made that Obama had to reply quicker then he did for numerous other controversies...... Clinton, Negative Adds, Mccain, Religion, Pastor Wright, Hague, arrogance . . .

The BBC reports.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7534736.stm

A song by rap star Ludacris criticising Barack Obama's opponents has been called "outrageously offensive" by the US presidential candidate's campaign.

Politics As Usual calls President Bush "mentally handicapped", and insults both Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
"Ludacris is a talented individual but he should be ashamed of these lyrics," said Mr Obama's spokesman Bill Burton.

The rap star's publicist initially declined to comment, reported the Associated Press.

'Great talent'

The musician used a misogynistic term to describe Mrs Clinton and urged Mr Obama against appointing her as his running mate, saying that she "hated on you".
Mr McCain, the Republican candidate for the presidency, does not belong in "any chair unless he's paralysed", according to the rapper.

Mr Burton added: "As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn't want his daughters or any children exposed to."

The Ludacris song urges black people to cast their votes in the forthcoming election, and lends his support to Mr Obama's bid.

The lyric "the world is ready for change 'cause Obama is here" is repeated throughout the track.
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year, Mr Obama included Ludacris when describing hip-hop stars he considered "great talents and great businessmen".

In 2006, before he announced his intention to run for president, the politician met the rapper privately in Chicago to discuss youth issues.

Now there can be several arguments that "The media is taking advantage." or "It's because Ludacris is Black." etc and so on.....





My question for you is:





WE KNOW the media will be unfair, biased, ignorant, judgemental and WE KNOW that a double standard exists(Not saying we should be happy with it).

But if WE KNOW these things are prevalent, shouldn't we as supporters be more cautious with what we put out......so maybe through Obama winning, without these distractions that WE KNOW will happen, the change will come???

Ludacris . . . I am a big supporter, but I do think that you are a better businessman, and could have made a better judgement as to "How your song will be taken out of context, before you put it out there." And my biggest fear as a fan is that this is just a publicity stunt for your album..... Say it aint so Luda...Say it aint so...

Disney.....C'mon!

So not a day after I post about the Jim Crow, and give Disney a shout out for the 9 Most racist Characters..... do I get a look at the new preview for Disney's Black movie.....

“The Princess and the Frog”

Now I tend to watch Disney movie with ethnic stereotypes like a Mexican watches Lou Dobbs on CNN.... waiting to cringe at the audacity!

So just when I thought the preview didn't go too far..... Here comes this firefly!



So I did a little research and found pretty quickly that this is still after almost a complete re-write do to . . . . You guessed it, being called out for being too Stereotypical!!!!


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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2305515/Disney's-first-black-princess-leads-to-race-row.html

Originally called The Frog Princess, its heroine was to be a chambermaid called Maddy working for a spoilt white debutante in 1920s New Orleans.
But it sparked a backlash from critics who claimed it reinforced prejudice and demeaned black people.

As a result the title of the musical, which has yet to be released, was changed to The Princess and The Frog and the princess will now be called Tiana.
Among the concerns were the New Orleans setting, the portrayal of voodoo and the overtones of slavery.

One of the film's staunchest critics was William Blackburn, a columnist for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina.

"Disney should be ashamed of what it is trying to pass off as its first black princess," he said."Despite all its resources and experience, it has failed to create a black princess to rival its predecessors.

"For one, this princess' story is set in New Orleans, the setting of one of the most devastating tragedies to beset a black community. And then they throw in the voodoo theme and an alligator sidekick. When you put New Orleans, alligators and voodoo together, there's no beauty there."

He added that Maddy sounded too similar to Mammy, a name synonymous with the segregated Deep South.

Rodney Hinds, features editor of The Voice newspaper, said: "We are talking about a big company who has had to go back to the drawing board. It's disappointing... Some of the stereotyping of people from our community is still rigid in people's minds. We have our own dreams and stories like everyone else, and we want them to be portrayed positively."
Following the rewrite the heroine has been recast as Tiana who is destined to live happily ever after with a dashing character expected to be of Middle Eastern heritage. The race of the villain is also reported to have been revised.

A spokesman for Disney said: "The story takes place in the charming elegance and grandeur of New Orleans' fabled French Quarter during the Jazz Age... Princess Tiana will be a heroine in the great tradition of Disney's rich animated fairy tale legacy, and all other characters and aspects of the story will be treated with the greatest respect and sensitivity."